John23 posted:The large modern windows look like the sort of thing done in the 60's & 70's before preservation movements were a big thing. It will fit right in to my mid-70's era layout. Overall a great value for the price!
I think this is absolutely correct. People are used to seeing perfectly preserved buildings today but forget that many of them only got that way today out of backing out of the poor rehab jobs done a few decades ago. People never used to care about the historical origins of buildings. They were just functional, run-down, and were kept going in low budgets.
I just got done watching a video of Harry Heike's Grand Central Terminal base he did for someone who wanted a lot of realism. Graffiti all over the place, non-standard doors and lights at the shops below. For that customer, they wanted the non-correct, the realistic, the gritty details of what that terminal once looked liked. Another customer might instead want a perfect, clean representation showing the grandess of that terminal.
This is the same. Also, so many of the complaints about this station can be remedied. Don't like that huge set of windows? Put a large newspaper kiosk in front of it. Or storage lockers. Or turn the station into a station undergoing a remodel so have doors boarded off, etc.
Would a Woodland Scenics version of it look better? Absolutely. But it would also likely be pushing $200. I think their upcoming Feed building is $175!
